[WiLT] Defending Local Grants - leaflet to download from DSC

[WiL Admin]

Is your Local Authority considering scrapping a crucial grant
programme?

Is your PCT saying it's contracts or nothing?

The prevalence of contractual arrangements and loan finance provided
by government funders is to a large degree related to the drive to
involve charities and other voluntary organisations in delivering
public services. Increasingly grants are portrayed as unsustainable or
outmoded, but we maintain that they have real advantages.

Grants can be more responsive to need from the bottom-up, can allow
for greater flexibility and innovation, are better suited to the
unique legal status of charity, and ultimately pose fewer threats to
an organisation's independence. They are particularly important at
local level to enable citizens to make positive contributions to their
community. These changes to the funding environment highlight the
important role of independent grant-making trusts and foundations.

The Local Grants Forum (of which DSC is a member) has produced
Defending Local Grants, a short leaflet to help you make the case for
grant funding in your local area. It provides resources you can use to
help convince councillors, commissioning officers and procurement
professionals that grants should continue to be used to fund local
organisations and groups. Download Defending Local Grants at
http://dotm1.net/t.aspx?l=1547556&i=497973365